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Friday 16th November 2007 - Issue 31
Jaguar XF takes Design Award
Jaguar’s all-important new
XF saloon, to be launched
early next year, last night
won its first major accolade,
Autocar magazine’s
annual Design Award for
2007.
The honour is one of
nine announced by Chas
Hallett, Autocar’s editor,
at a ceremony in
Westminster attended by
more than 400 motor
industry leaders and
celebrities from Europe,
the US and Asia. The
awards panel made special
note of the exceptional
achievement of Jaguar’s
designers and engineers in
resisting ‘retro’ styling and
leapfrogging an entire
design generation to produce
original, contemporary
interior and exterior
themes on which all future
Jaguars will build.
Ian Callum, Jaguar’s
Design Director said
“This is the first time
Jaguar has won this award
from Autocar for a production
car and I’m
absolutely thrilled the new
XF is the winner. It’s
wonderful to receive
recognition for our efforts
within the industry. This
award recognises the
work we have been doing
to develop a new design
direction for Jaguar and
the XF is the first example
of this on a saloon car.”
The guest speaker, Bob
Lutz, GM’s legendary
vice-president in charge of
product…